Wrapping a call to the Twitter user lookup API with ColdFusion

I just wrote a quick UDF (available now on CFLib) that wraps the call to Twitter’s user look up system. Like most Twitter APIs, this one is ridiculously simple, but I need this code for another project I’m working on (technically I need it in Flex, but the ColdFusion version helps me understand how I’ll write that) so I thought I’d write it up real quick like. Here is getTwitterUser:

I'd rather that be in script to be honest, but that wouldn't be difficult to rewrite. Usage then is pretty trivial. If you ask for a user that exists, you get a large structure back. If you get one that does not, you get an error key in the struct. Here's example code:

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